Am Mittwoch, 2. Mai 2007 schrieb Jerry Feldman: > On Tue, 1 May 2007 19:57:59 +0200 > > Herbert Graeber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007 schrieb Feris Thia: > > > I have a global (catch-all) account at my ISP. In my Linux box I need > > > to download all the emails from the account and want to delivered it > > > to local user's inbox. I've just learned about .forward and > > > .procmailrc and have no problem with Regular Expression. > > > > > > How do I match an email's address pattern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) from > > > RECEIVED field in mail's header and then resend it ? > > > > Why procmail? You may better use fetchmail. This is partly supported by > > YaST. What's missing is the catch-all case (multi drop mailboxes). This > > must be configured manually in /etc/fetchmailrc. Look into the man page > > of fetchmail for details. > > Procmail is a mail delivery agent. Fetchmail is a mail retrieval agent. > You can use Fetchmail to grab email from your ISP's POP3 or IMAP > servers and deliver it to local users on your Linux system. This may be > preferable to the global account at your ISP, but that depends on many > factors.
But fetchmail has the ability to evaluate the Received fields or (better) other custom fields added by the ISP that contain the envelope of the emails. > With procmail you can use a number of rules to deliver email as you > know. The problem is that there are a number of Received fields. One > thing you could do is similar to the way we use Spamassasin, is to pipe > the message through a program or script that you write, and add a > unique field that you can key on. Here is my .procmailrc generic spamc > rule. > > :0fw: spamassassin.lock > > * < 256000 > > | spamc > > So, you could use something like: > :0fw:mycode.lock > : > | mycode > > Mycode would then create a header line, such as "mycode: username" > Then you would create a simple set of rules for the new header line you > inserted. Sure, procmail is a useful and flexible tool. But for getting mail from a multi drop mailbox and delivering it into separate mailboxes via postfix or sendmailm, fetchmail works better. You can even use procmail for other tasks, too. > There may be a more elegant way of doing this, but it should work. Even when I think fetchmail is better for the task of loading and sorting mails from multi drop mailboxes, this is not elegant too, because multi drop mailboxes itself are a kludge. Cheers, Herbert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
